Apple fonts in 3.7?

John Pfersich jp1660 at att.net
Mon Feb 23 23:23:07 UTC 2004


Doug Way  wrote:
>The current TTFont support is not based on Freetype, as far as I 
>know.  So we're not too close to supporting hinting.  If someone 
>worked on supporting Freetype, we could look at including it.  (I 
>vaguely recall there were some patent or somesuch issues with 
>Freetype while ago, which may be resolved by now...)
>
>There's also the Win32 native font support package which (I believe) 
>does support hinting via the Win32 api, but that's not currently 
>cross-platform.
>
>- Doug

They've got a new algorithm that gets around the Apple license that's 
available in FreeType2.

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